Has anyone dumped udev for devfs?

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Wilkinson" <james at westexe.demon.co.uk>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: Has anyone dumped udev for devfs?


> Thomas Cameron wrote:
>> No, *you* are not getting the point.  The old devfs Just Worked(TM) for 
>> the
>> vast majority of us.
>
> Hmm. Neither Fedora nor Red Hat ever enabled devfs by default. Who is
> "the vast majority of us"?

I misspoke.  I was thinking "legacy /dev setup" but typed devfs instead. 
Sorry.

>> There are *lots* of people on this list who are
>> reporting problems with udev.  I am not one so I can't say what is 
>> broken.
>> But I see that for many, many users udev is problematic.  I am not saying
>> udev is bad.  I imagine that once it gets the bugs worked out, it will
>> probably be pretty cool.  I am just not sure I understand why the old 
>> devfs
>> was bad and udev was created.  Again, to make perfectly clear:  I don't
>> think udev is bad, I just don't know why we needed it when devfs seemed 
>> to
>> work fine.

< truly excellent explanation snipped >

> It's not that a static /dev was bad. It's just that the kernel
> developers think that they can do better.


Thank you, James - that is exactly what I was asking for.  You've made it 
very clear.

Thomas